Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.(A) 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.(B)

11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another.(C) Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister[a] or judges them(D) speaks against the law(E) and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it,(F) but sitting in judgment on it.

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:11 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family.

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